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elbow1126 |
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September 28, 2012 02:52:20am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
your science is fucked too. Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer. He succumbed to being a male.
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dark.starz |
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September 28, 2012 07:49:36pm |
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My science is fucked?
Never said lung cancer, no one really knows the cause of Zappas cancer but nicotine abuse has been linked to advancing Prostatitis and can worsen the condition and certainly contributed to the decline of his health.
You took my point out of context.
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elbow1126 |
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September 29, 2012 02:32:19am |
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All men get prostate cancer. If you live long enough you either die from it or die with it. Even if his smoking contributed to his poor health, it is a stretch to say that he succumbed to his nicotine addiction because of his death due to prostate cancer. Based on that logic, anyone who smokes and dies of a natural cause succumbed to their addiction.
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cosmicharIie |
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September 29, 2012 05:48:36am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
hmmm...sounds like a good reason to have it removed, even when it's cancer free... Maybe thats the cause of a lot of other cancers men get, it spreads from the prostate. Never thought I'd discuss this here!
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elbow1126 |
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September 29, 2012 02:36:40pm |
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No i think the opposite is true. Removal of the prostate has side effects that including impotence, incontinence and death (complications of surgery). This has been at the heart of a big controversy in the medical field; does screening for prostate cancer actually save lives or does it do harm? The studies seem to suggest that it does harm as we end up treating earlier than we know if what is found is life threatening. Thus many men have had the quality of their lives altered and it is not clear how many of them would have actually died of prostate cancer. There are also questions as to whether early detection actually prolongs life. Many of the studies used overall survival from point of detection as the measure. The problem is that if you screen earlier than you are counting the survival time from an earlier point. i.e. if with early detection a man at 55 lives 15 years, is that really different if he was not screened and his cancer was detected by conventional means at 60 and he lives 10 years? Add on that the person was subjected to poisons and/or irradiation for an extra 5 years and might be impotent or wearing diapers then you really have to question the value. Moreover the complications with surgery are not trivial. A small percentage of men die due to the surgery. Similar issues are coming up with breast cancer. If you are a high risk individual due to family history, then you should be screened but it is not completely clear how valuable this is to the average woman.
Here is a press release after the publication of a 10 year study earlier this year.
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/health-of-the-public/20120522psascreenrec.html
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William Tell |
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September 30, 2012 12:09:04pm |
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How'd I miss this? As a rare example of "early detection worked", I'd like to make clear that I, like Frank, would've died in 2-4 yrs post detection if not for removal. Many was the exceptional, aggressive, about to invade the bladder form, that until removed only looked half that bad (and at 48 yrs, it was WAY early). Frank died v quickly because he did NOTHING about it, and clearly should have.
The bottom line of all these studies, and trust I've read them all, is that addt'l info is never bad, BUT what you do with it should NOT be by a simplistic set of rules (always case by case).
Most guys can live with it for extended periods, and there are FAR too many removals/various treatments that are unnecessary and/or premature, BUT for the small number of folks like myself that are clearly "saved", it would be shame to throw the test out with the knee jerk treatment response (not that you were saying that).
Get yours checked, and simply keep track; rapid doubling of PSA, and off you go to a GOOD urologist, and take it SLOW.
BTW, the best predictor of "performance" post removal is presurgery performance....whewww. Just watch out for "robotic" approaches.
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elbow1126 |
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September 30, 2012 12:25:29pm |
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I was waiting for you to show up!
Sounds like yours wasn't really early detection as much as catching something already there in the screen. i.e you had something that had to be treated. I think the issue is not folks like you, it is the ones that are true early detection and it is not clear that they need to be treated.
Yes I agree that the primary problem is with what is done with the data not the data itself. I also think what is done with the data is often driven by the wrong motivation $$$
I think the answer is that we need better prognostic tools to know how best to move forward from an early detection screen. I think the studies are basically telling us that PSA is too blunt an instrument for this.
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William Tell |
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September 30, 2012 02:07:54pm |
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Au contraire slack bladder--ie, "me": amazing, but true, I was monitoring VERY closely cause old man had it...all through my 30s and 40s, and then in ONE yr my PSA went from 2 to 4 after being 2 for 15 yrs, each and every yr. Bam, six months later I am recovering after doing all possible tests but then having it out and finding it was much bigger than it "shud" have been, etc. etc.
Thus, I think PSA is good cause it's v cheap, ya know? Then you can do many more things depending on other info.
And, though you are right to say "yours wasn't 'early' in typical sense" it was as fast as it could have been, and mine just happened to suddenly start growing v rapidly (that's something guys like you are/shud be studying, eh? variation like mine and Frank's--assuming he had an aggr form, blah, blah, balh).
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elbow1126 |
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September 30, 2012 08:20:34pm |
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Ahh, see you should have been screened because you had a family history. Those are the people who clearly benefit, especially in breast cancer. I think the recommendations about screening are based on the general population not high risk people.
I think you made a pretty convincing argument for why PSA is problematic. Most are concerned about the false positives resulting in un-needed anxiety and care. Sounds like you had something closer to a false negative. That's even scarier.
PSA is cheap on an individual test level however it is not cheap if it results in un-needed treatment in a large population.
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William Tell |
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October 01, 2012 06:59:01am |
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yes, I understand the cost biz, and we are probably just discussing the finer variations of "both sides" of the issue...mislead you a bit though, as the "old man had it" only in the sense that when he died of other causes, his had been enlarged enough (no biopsy) that he assumed he had it, etc., etc., but being 78, was probably just "normal"...however, that was 20 yrs ago, so I assumed "family history" and yet, probably just "normal" family history?
my pt was I personally monitored since I was/am paranoid...
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elbow1126 |
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October 01, 2012 07:38:16am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
like i said earlier, if a man lives long enough he will either die of prostate cancer or die with it.
Well I, for one, am glad you were paranoid!. Of course we always suspected such behavior after the time the lights went out here and you were running around with your shirt off, covered in body paint, using a tie as a headband while carrying a torch and screaming something about finding the discs that 6-14-68 were stored on before they fall into the hands of latter era fans.
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William Tell |
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October 01, 2012 01:07:04pm |
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Ha! Those were the days...
I guess my perspective on the test cost biz is that given almost EVERY 40 yr old male does all the other blood work (cholest, etc) these days, this is relatively cheap "add on"...thus, the big exp in England with Rob and Co, IMHO, is overblown, in terms of the actual cost comparison given what we already do here...we could eliminate some of those, frankly, as the point is a few cases like mine and Frank are actual "saved lives" (ie, even if it's rare it's very significant) whereas the others (ie, cholesteraol) are just "quality of life/possible heart disease", etc., etc.
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cosmicharIie |
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September 30, 2012 06:33:19am |
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impotence? which means i can't get my Jolly Roger up?? arrrrrggghhhh!
At 65, not being able to reproduce means ziltch to me, I've never had the desire to pollute the gene pool,
just the forum - lol. Speaking of that, whats with the new change of heart for the new and improved guy? New med's or he found "The Lord"?? The hacking of my email says otherwise, since my Lost Sailors Pub & email password WAS the same...(I consider DS and Pub man one and the same person)
Well, I learned what BCC & CC meant :P
This post was modified by cosmicharIie on 2012-09-30 13:33:19
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RBNW....new and improved! |
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September 28, 2012 05:12:32am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
didnt he smoke cigs out his ass??
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elbow1126 |
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September 28, 2012 05:16:24am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
that might have caused colon cancer, for prostate cancer it would have had to been a different opening and one that i am not sure would have been real comfortable to shove cigarettes in to...
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SomeDarkHollow |
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September 28, 2012 11:47:38am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
Not so sure. If you were a chain smoker in the hospital following some complex oral surgery, you might be tempted to shove a Camel Unfiltered into your catheter just to see what happens.
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elbow1126 |
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September 28, 2012 11:54:10am |
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I stand corrected.
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 Monte B Cowboy |
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September 28, 2012 12:17:10pm |
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I clearly recall the triple-x-rated porn district in downtown NYC. This crap was all around Times Square while I was a punk-kid from NJ. It was a.k.a. "Burlesque" porn. All the kids from my area knew that at any given Burlesque show in Times Square you would see a stripper "smoking" a lit unfiltered Camel in her vagina, and blowing smoke rings back out of it. Frank would have witnessed this. We all saw it. Ask Jeff or BVD.
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Mandojammer |
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September 28, 2012 01:33:44pm |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
Somehow, you have just pushed the concept of second-hand smoke into a horrifying new realm.........
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Dudley Dead |
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September 28, 2012 07:58:16am |
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He also had a horrible diet ! Lots of hotdogs and canned chili .
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Dudley Dead |
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September 28, 2012 07:58:16am |
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He also had a horrible diet ! Lots of hotdogs and canned chili .
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bluedevil |
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September 28, 2012 08:40:35am |
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and orange juice in a glass about this size of his thumb and those lovely howard johnson's clam strips.
I also heard he was fond of muffins...
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patkelleyPA |
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September 28, 2012 09:09:42am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
he thought he was man, but as it turns out, he was a muffin
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Dudley Dead |
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September 28, 2012 11:06:52am |
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Re: Frank Zappa |
Ha ! I was listening to "Bongo Fury" last Sunday .
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bluedevil |
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September 28, 2012 01:04:06pm |
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I've posted about this before, but when Zappa died Vaclav Havel had the flag over the Prague Castle lowered to half mast and made a statement about how he would listen that evening to his copy of "Bongo Fury" that Zappa gave him.
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_HavelOn a side note, our gallery is trying to sell a Don Van Vliet painting for a private party.
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Dudley Dead |
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September 28, 2012 04:26:21pm |
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One of the great things, of course, about "Bongo Fury", is Beefheart's vocals and the 2 poems/songs he does . I met him at a record signing for "Shiny Beast", but I got him to autograph my copy of "Trout MasK' instead . He saw it, and his face lit up, "THIS is my favorite" .
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bluedevil |
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September 29, 2012 03:28:57pm |
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That is very, very cool. Keep that protected.
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SomeDarkHollow |
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September 28, 2012 12:01:21pm |
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Don't get me started on HoJo's clam strips.
Ahh, to be young and driving north on 128 to the Portland CC. Fond memories. Might as well throw in a Fribble while you're at it.
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Mandojammer |
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September 28, 2012 09:12:38am |
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Canned chili is bad?
Wait.......what?
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